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I've been using Microsoft Word since at least 1995.
I was just attempting to do a Search / Replace and I (of course) hit Ctrl-F (find).
Of course, Microsoft in there infinite wisdom has changed that to show some Navigate option thing which is useless (see this snapshot[^]).
I'm not sure what the even does. Navigate on a word? What kind of garbage is that? Useless.
Search / Replace: Nowhere To Be Found
Where is search or search replace? Ctrl-F means FIND in almost every editor known to humans. 
I literally couldn't find it on the Ribbon Bar, in the menus...nowhere.
I finally had to search the web to find out how to search / replace[^].
They changed it to CTRL-H -- After 30 years of CTRL-F!?!
CTRL-H ??? CTRL-H!!! You Freaking Monsters Changed it to CTRL-H!!!
I'm done!!
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raddevus wrote: I'm not sure what the even does
In MS Word: It shows all instances of your search word/phrase, without having to scroll through a 40 page document. I like it!
Never really had to perform replace in MS Word before, so no comment there.
modified 26-Oct-20 12:01pm.
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Slacker007 wrote: It shows all instances of your search word/phrase, without having to scroll through a 40 page document. I like it!
Thanks for the explanation of that. I was totally confused about it. Also, it's good to hear an alternative viewpoint. I'm just so shocked that CTRL-F is replaced. It's confusing to an old guy like me. 
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raddevus wrote: It's confusing to an old guy like me.
Too be honest, it was confusing to me at first as well. Company pushed out the latest version of office and a lot had changed with little to no warning.
Frustrating, I know. I just try to roll with the punches.
Also, I am almost 50 myself, so not a spring chicken anymore.
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Slacker007 wrote: Frustrating, I know. I just try to roll with the punches.
Yeah, it's all you can do. Cause the punches keep on coming. 
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Except in an Outlook email, where it's a shortcut for forwarding. 
EDIT: I should have read the next post! But I still want to vent my !
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You ever tried ^F in Outlook - Forward, not Find
I love consistency
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g_p_l wrote: I love consistency
Indecision is the key to flexibility, you know? 
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Figures that a savant would have something to do with it.
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It's worse than that.
Yeah, Ctrl + F is for Forward but only if you are just reading a mail.
If you are replying to it (so in edit mode) then Ctrl + F is Find.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Well, no one uses Ctrl-H to backspace anymore, becuase because we always type perfectly. Since it is now available...
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What do you mean, no one uses ^H anymore? Maybe not to backspace, but as a printable character to tell idio^H^H^H^H people what they really think.
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Yeah. Sadly, it only works on people who've been around for a while.
Remember when you could drive people crazy by sending a Ctrl-G with NET SEND. and they'd try to figure out why their computer kept DINGing at them?
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GenJerDan wrote: Remember when you could drive people crazy by sending a Ctrl-G with NET SEND
I never did that! 
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They're just mimicking Eclipse, which uses CTRL-H for it's search.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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What, because H(unt makes more sense?
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Current year and not using grep like a boss 
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Ctrl-F is usually standard for find
Ctrl-H is usually standard for find and replace.
Visual Studio for example, has been this way forever.
If anything, MS should be doing the above in word.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Wait 'til you swap languages.
Mappings for shortcut keys will change.
If I do Ctrl-f I'll get Bold text.
But best of all, formulas in Excel are translated. If I create an excel sheet in Swedish with formulas in it, I can't send it to you and expect it to work.
<edit>Actually, it seems like I can.
Question: Has it changed or was it always like that?
</edit>
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
modified 26-Oct-20 13:04pm.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I can't send it to you and expect it to work
I am not entirely sure that's true: Excel files open with german function names on a german system and french function names on a french system. The very same excel files.
I never really understood the need of translating the function though...
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